The Bogart Award

I want to say thank you to Nicole from Young Mama Blog for giving me this award. Sorry it took me so long to announce it. We are right in the middle of moving and I am taking classes so blogging has been put on the back burner until I get moved to the new house tomorrow.

"This award means you're really going places, Baby. You'll still be blogging about your great adventures 10 years from now, and I'll still be reading them."

Ok, so here are the rules for this award:
- link back to the blogger who sent me this award
- post where I would like to be in 10 years
- pass it on to 10 more bloggers

In ten years I would love to be the mom of 3 maybe 4 kids. Levi will be almost 13 and Luke almost 12. That is crazy and scary to think about. I hope to have completed my Masters Degree and working in my chosen career of either social work or counseling. We will own our home in a nice neighborhood closer to family. My husband will be in a career that he loves. I don't care what that is. We will still be totally and completely in love with each other and able to take mini vacations with and without the kids. I hope to have been back to Hawaii to see all my family there.

The award goes to...
1. Hilary at A Look Into Our Lives
2 Amanda at Belli's Place
3 Crayon Wrangler at Coloring Outside the Lines
4 Raechel at Finding My Feet
5 Kate at Kates Life
6 Jess at Keep it Together
7 Kristina at Kristinas Chitchat
8 Kami at My Beautiful Day
9 Pineapple Princess at The Love Shack
10 Melis at The Zookeepers Diary

I hope to be back in a few days to normal blogging and back to a schedule.

Ice Cream Clowns

Baskin Robbins is one of my favorite ice cream places to go.

I love their mint chocolate chip.

Nothing compares.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, there is a Baskin Robbins close to our new house and while we were visiting over the weekend I stopped and got the boys and I a treat. I thought they would enjoy the ice cream cone clowns. And I was right.

Here is Levi trying to get the frosting off of Luke's cone. As you can tell by the look on Luke's face he is not okay with that.

Fort Building

A few weekends ago Ryan and Levi destroyed my living room and built a fort. I was okay with the destruction since it was for a good cause. Levi thought it was really cool but didn't understand why he couldn't walk on top of the fort. They had a lot of fun crawling in the fort and hiding from me. I love watching them play together. It's really sweet.


Levi and daddy inside the fort. You can tell Levi is loving it.

After Levi destroyed the fort Ryan wrapped him up like a burrito.

Then Luke woke up and joined the fun.

Fossil hunting

This weekend while we were in Kansas City I took the boys exploring. We went to a restaurant that had a fossil hunting section, build a dinosaur (build a bear set up), dinosaur structures, and caves to go through. I thought this was an interactive dinosaur museum type place but I was wrong. It was actually just a restaurant with a really cool atmosphere. I let the boys play in the caves and go fossil hunting. They had a lot of fun.


Levi kept climbing on the rocks in the caves and I snapped this pictures unintentionally and it was great. I love his expression.

I tried to get a good picture of the boys together but they were so busy looking and exploring I didn't get a good one of both of them looking at the camera.

Levi was brushing the sand away looking for fossils. He had a great time.

Luke is my little explorer. He wasn't afraid to get in and dig. He did end up with a mouthful of sand when he dropped his paci and then put it back in his mouth. GROSS!
Before we left the hotel Ryan told Levi the dinosaurs were going to eat him. He was joking but Levi didn't understand that and was afraid at first. Once he realized the dinosaurs were nice he kept saying he was going to bite them. It was a lot of fun. All in all we had a great weekend and I look forward to many more adventures with the boys.